FERTILIZER MFG. · Florida

The Bushel Stop

Lake Worth, FL · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Bushel Stop runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical FERTILIZER MFG. workplace, earning a grade D.

The Bushel Stop: 4.4 TCR = 133% of FERTILIZER MFG. BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Bushel Stop safety composite

The Bushel Stop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

The Bushel Stop: 5.1 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2020

The Bushel Stop's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.1 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Lake Worth, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Down to Earth Distri…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Down to Earth Distributors, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Bushel Stop in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows The Bushel Stop averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the FERTILIZER MFG. BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

The Bushel Stop TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where The Bushel Stop falls in its industry

85 FERTILIZER MFG. establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 FERTILIZER MFG. employers in Florida.

The Bushel Stop (71 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate The Bushel Stop
The Bushel Stop (71 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

The Bushel Stop has more employees than the FERTILIZER MFG. median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 5.7 5.7 6 0 0
2019 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2018 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2017 5.8 4.7 5 0 0
2016 5.1 3.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · FL · Lake Worth

85 FERTILIZER MFG. employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 87 employers in Lake Worth, FL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Down to Earth Distributors, INC. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAND VIEW INC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&D Fertilizer, Ltd. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Compost Company 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Potato 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE DESOTO HARVESTING 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egan Fruit Packing LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barron Collier Partnership, LLLP 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Eight Staffing Solutions dba Labor For Hire - Lake Worth 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Select Specialty Hospital - Palm Beach, Inc 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Metal Supply Lake Worth 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR LFB American Plasma-Greenacres 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Silver Lake Center, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 26 Villa Park, Il 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000065 Quickchek Food Stores 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SSA Pacific @ The Port of Stockton 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverhead Automall Ltd 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 470 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 664 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazleton Site Contractors 71 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.